The Political History of England ...: Montague, F.C. From the accession of James I to the restoration (1603-1660)William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole Longmans, Green and Company, 1907 - Great Britain |
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... Court Conference . Death of Archbishop Whitgift Meeting of parliament . Goodwin's case · The desire for reform • The proposed union with Scotland The apology of the commons The privileged trading companies The king and the Roman ...
... Court Conference . Death of Archbishop Whitgift Meeting of parliament . Goodwin's case · The desire for reform • The proposed union with Scotland The apology of the commons The privileged trading companies The king and the Roman ...
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... Court The king signs the engagement . The vote of no addresses 22 Feb. , 1648 . A rising in Wales 325 · 326 • 327 • 328 . 329 330 • 331 • 332 333 334 • 335 • 336 • 337 21 May . A rising in Kent . 338 8 July . Hamilton's invasion of ...
... Court The king signs the engagement . The vote of no addresses 22 Feb. , 1648 . A rising in Wales 325 · 326 • 327 • 328 . 329 330 • 331 • 332 333 334 • 335 • 336 • 337 21 May . A rising in Kent . 338 8 July . Hamilton's invasion of ...
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... Court on January 14 , 1604. Authority was represented by the Archbishop of Canter- bury , eight bishops , five deans , and two other clergymen . The puritans were represented by Reynolds , Dean of Lincoln , Sparke , Knewstubs , and ...
... Court on January 14 , 1604. Authority was represented by the Archbishop of Canter- bury , eight bishops , five deans , and two other clergymen . The puritans were represented by Reynolds , Dean of Lincoln , Sparke , Knewstubs , and ...
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... Court conference failed to restore harmony in the Church of England , but it enriched English literature . For the king was led by his love of learning to grant the request for a new trans- lation of the Bible ; and to his care we owe ...
... Court conference failed to restore harmony in the Church of England , but it enriched English literature . For the king was led by his love of learning to grant the request for a new trans- lation of the Bible ; and to his care we owe ...
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... court of chancery declared the election void , and in a second election Fortescue was returned , Goodwin , who was not ambitious to defy the crown , himself soliciting the freeholders in his favour . But the house claimed cognisance of ...
... court of chancery declared the election void , and in a second election Fortescue was returned , Goodwin , who was not ambitious to defy the crown , himself soliciting the freeholders in his favour . But the house claimed cognisance of ...
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Popular passages
Page 259 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 477 - that according to the ancient and fundamental laws of this Kingdom, the government is, and ought to be, by King, Lords, and Commons.
Page 180 - I pray God bless him to carry it so that the Church may have honour, and the State service and content by it. And now, if the Church will not hold up themselves, under God I can do no more.
Page 11 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 76 - It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do; good Christians content themselves with his will revealed in his Word; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do; or to say that a king cannot do this or that; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.
Page 348 - And truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom, as much as any Body whomsoever ; but I must tell you, That their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government, those Laws by which their Life and their Goods may be most their own. It is not for having share in Government (Sirs) that is nothing pertaining to them. A Subject and a Sovereign are clean different things...
Page 16 - What cause we your poor Commons have to watch over our privileges is manifest in itself to all men. The prerogatives of princes may easily and do daily grow; the privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand.
Page 237 - It was true, we give law to hares and deer, because they be beasts of chase ; but it was never accounted either cruelty, or foul play, to knock foxes and wolves on the head as they can be found, because they be beasts of prey.
Page 395 - O Sir Henry Vane, Sir Henry Vane, the Lord deliver me from Sir Henry Vane.
Page 259 - since I see all the birds are flown, I do expect from you that you shall send them unto me as soon as they return hither. But I assure you, on the word of a King, I never did intend any force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.